Sliding gate



(No Model.)

V. THOMPSON.

SLIDING GATE.

No. 469,286. Patented Feb. 23, 1892.

. gate is mounted.

UNITED STATES VICTOR THOMPSON, OF

RUSSIAVILLE, INDIANA.

SLlDING GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 469,286, dated February23, 1892.

Application filed October 29, 1890. Serial No 369,755. (No model.)

To aZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, VICTOR THOMPSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Russiaville, in the county of Howard and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Sliding Gates; andI do declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to improvements in sliding gates; and it hasfor its general object to provide a gate and devices for operating thesame of such construction that the gate may be readily opened and closedby the wheels of a vehicle, by a person upon horseback or seated in avehicle, and by a pcdestrian.

A secondary object of the invention is to provide a constructionembodying elements adapted to be adjustably fixed to limit the movementof the gate; and a further secondary object of the invention is toprovide a construction whereby at the first movement of the devices toopen the gate the latch thereof will be disengaged from its keeper.

To the attainment of the foregoing and other objects the inventionconsists in the construction, certain novel combinations, and adaptationof parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of myimproved sliding gate and its operating devices, the gate beingillustrated in a closed position. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of theadjustable bar supporting the friction-pulleys upon which the Fig. 3 isa detail front elevation of the guide-bars and the adjustable barcarrying the friction-pulleys mounted therein, and Fig. 4 is atransverse section taken in the plane indicated by the line a: as, onFig. 3.

Referring by letter of designation to the said drawings, A indicates myimproved sliding gate, which may be of the ordinary or any approvedconstruction. Two of the longitudinal bars B of the gate A are extendedrearwardly therefrom and preferably have their adjacent edges beveled toprevent their casual displacement from the friction pulley or pulleys O,which are preferably provided with grooved peripheries and are adaptedto be adjustably fixed with respect to the gatepost D, as will bepresently described.

Connected to the gate A at a suitable point is a latch, as E, which isadapted when the gate is closed to be engaged and held by a suitablekeeper to upon the latch-post F.

Extending laterally from the gate A, beneath the latch E, is a lug b,which takes through a longitudinal slot 0 in the forward end of a bar G,which connects the gate with the devices for operating the same, as willbe presently described. Connected at one end to the latch F and takingover a pulley or through an eye, as c, and connected at its opposite endto the bar G is a cord II, through the medium of which the latch isdisengaged from the keeper a, inasmuch as at the first movement of thedevices for operating the gate in opening the same the bar G will bepulled rearwardly, as will be presently explained.

Situated at suitable points on opposite sides of and in line withthepost D are uprights I, which are provided at their upper ends with Tbranches or lateral arms, to which are fulcrumed levers J through themedium of which the gate may be opened and closed, as will be presentlyset forth.

Journaled in the gate-post D and in the uprights I is a rocking bar K,which is provided at suitable points in its length with re spect to theinner ends of the levers J with fixed beams L, the ends of which areconnected to the inner ends of the levers .I by chains d, whereby itwill be seen that when the levers are manipulated the bar will berocked. Fixedly connected to the rocking bar K and depending therefromis a branch M, which is preferably slotted adjacent to its lower end toreceive the rear end of the bar G, which is pivotall y or looselyconnected to said branch.

By the construction thus far described it will be readily perceived thatby manipulating the levers 1.] on either side of the gate said gate maybe readily opened and closed.

Suitably journaled upon a suitable base embedded in the ground onopposite sides of the gate are rocking bars N, which are respectivelyprovided with four crank-branches 1, two of which are connected to theends of the beams L by ropes or chains, while the other two are adaptedto be engaged by the wheels of a vehicle to open and close the gate.Connected at one end to the gate post D and at their opposite ends to asuitable upright or support are guide-bars Q, which are provided ontheir inner edges with ledges 6, so as to preventa lateral displacementof the ad ustable bar R, upon which the frictionpulleys O are mounted.This bar R, which 1s preferably grooved longitudinally to receive theledges e of the guide-bars, is provided at suitable intervals in itslength with transverse bolt-holes f to receive a bolt 9, which takesthrough the'post D and is adapted to fix the adjustable bar thereto. Bythis construction it will be readily perceived that the bar R and thefriction-pulleys mounted thereon may be readily adjusted and fixed toregulate the distance the gate may be opened.

Although I have specifically described the construction and relativearrangement of the several elements of my invention, yet I do not desireto be confined to the same, as such changes may be made as fairly fallwithin the scope of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a sliding gate anddevices for operatating the same, the combination, with the gate and thelatch pivotally connected thereto, of the bar having a longitudinal slotin its forward end and loosely connected to the gate by a bolt or lugtaking through said slot, a cord or chain connected at one end to thelatch and taking through an eye or pulley and connected at its oppositeend to the slotted bar, and a suitable means for-pulling said barrearwardly to open the gate, substantially as specified.

2. In a sliding gate, the combination, with the gate, the gate-posthaving a transverse bolt-hole, and the guide-bars connected to said postand having ledges on their inner edges, of the adjustable bar havingtransverse bolt-holes at intervals in its length and friction-pulleysmounted on said adjustable bar to be engaged by the longitudinal bars ofthe gate, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a sliding gate, the combination, with the uprights I, of the gatearranged between the same, the guide-bar Q, grooved, as shown, andarranged in a horizontal position, the bar R, adapted to be placedbetween the guidebars Q and adjustable therein, the frictionrollers O,pivoted in one side of said adjustable bar, the gate having two of itshorizontal bars extending rearwardly and beveled to enter the groove ofthe rollers, the upright D, the transversely-disposed rock-shaft K,arranged above the gate, the arm M, fixed atits upper end to therock-shaft, the bar G, loosely connected at its forward end to the gateand pivotally connected at its opposite end to the lower end of thebranch M, the hand-levers pivoted on the uprights I, the beams L, fixedat a central point to the rock-shaft, the chains connecting the oppositeend of said beams to one end of the hand-levers, and cranked rodsarranged in the roadway and connected with said fixed beams on therock-shaft, substantially'as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

VICTOR THOMPSON.

I'Vitnesses:

JOHN N. CAMPBELL, LUCRETIA CAMPBELL.

